Thinking Like a Water Model

An innovative water management exercise fosters hands-on learning in SWP’s Cambodia activity. In the Stung Chinit basin of Cambodia, rice farmers and fishermen depend on...
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Women, Water and World Hunger

How addressing women’s burdens from water risks could help promote global food security. For hundreds of millions of women, providing food to feed their families...
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“The River Belongs to the People”

Team Leader Gordon Mumbo brings a lifetime of experience to the Mara River Basin. Gordon Mumbo grew up in the small village of Kamuga, in...
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Towards More Resilient Solutions

SWP’s Liz Kendall looks back on World Water Week. On August 26, water professionals turned their attention to Stockholm, Sweden. At World Water Week, the world’s premier conference on water issues, attendees chose from hundreds...
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Seeing the Forests for the Water

Applying the Latest Science on Forest-Water Interactions to Decision-Making The world is experiencing both unprecedented forest loss and increasingly severe floods and drought events. These...
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Local Investment, Lasting Impact

Cambodian local leaders pledge to lead SWP’s Water Security Improvement Process. In Cambodia’s Stung Chinit watershed, 40 leaders from civil society and the private sector have...
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SWP at World Water Week

Sofa event will discuss work “safeguarding water-related ecosystems” in the Mara River and Tonle Sap Basins. The USAID-funded Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP) will participate in...
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“Hope Is Not a Strategy”

SWP’s panel of experts discusses solutions to the challenge of erratic water. “Water variability has always existed,” said USAID Climate Change Adaptation Specialist Jonathan Cook,...
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“We Are the Water Users”

Sustainable Water Partnership Director Eric Viala discusses water management in crisis on Africa 54. The devastation of torrential rains and flooding in northern Kenya grabbed the...
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SWP to Conclude Wilson Center Series with “The Challenge of Erratic Water”

Water is indispensable, but also highly variable. Communities around the world need a reliable and predictable supply of fresh water, but outdated infrastructure, poor management,...
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